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<H1>Amit Shukla
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<h3><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~samit/ball.blue.gif"> What have you been upto so far?</h3>

Well the first year I was here, I was a teaching assistant for 
<!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cs302">CS302</A>, with no life
outside of work and courses. Wait! I did have some fun, with
Intermediate swimming (at the 
<!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><A HREF=http://www.wisc.edu/recsports/facilities/serf.html>SERF</A>).
I spent my first summer
working at IBM's <!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><A HREF="http://www.almaden.ibm.com">Almaden research center</A>
in <!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><A HREF=http://www.ipac.net/csj/>San Jose</A>, 
<!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><A HREF=http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-tourist/California.html>California</A>,
working on <!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><A HREF="http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/tpc/tpcd.html">TPC-D</A>
a database benchmark for <!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><A HREF="http://power.cba.uni.edu/DJP/DSShome.html">
Decision Support Systems</A> (DSS). This got me interested in 
<!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><A HREF="http://www.clever.net/dbd/olap/">OLAP</A>, which is an acronym for
<b>O</B>n<b>L</b>ine <b>A</b>nalytical <b>P</b>rocessing. On my return from
Almaden, I started working for <!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~naughton/naughton.html">
Jeff Naughton</A>. Since spring '96, I am supported by a 
<!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><A HREF="http://www.software.ibm.com/torcas/">CAS</A> Fellowship from
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<!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><A HREF="http://www.enterprise.ca/~chaos/Toronto/">Toronto</A>, which is in the state of
<!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><A HREF="http://WWW.Attractions.ON.CA/">Ontario</A>,
<!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/">Canada</A>.
I was working on SMP parallelism for DB/2 Client Server.


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<h3><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~samit/ball.red.gif">Enough!! Don't you have a life??</h3>
My passion is 
<!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/drears/running/running.html">running</A>.
I run about 30 miles a week at the
<!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><A HREF="http://www.wisc.edu/recsports/facilities/shell.html">shell</A>,
in winter, and outdoors in summer, and dream of running a marathon some day.
It is Fall, and getting colder as the days go by. I am still running outdoors.
I want to run in the snow atleast once. 
As with any activity, running
has some special needs. It is important to 
<!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><A HREF="http://archie.ac.il/papers/rma/stretching_1.html"> stretch</A>
after a run.  Picking the right shoe to run in is an extremely important
decision. The shoe buyer's 
<!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><A HREF="http://www.runnersworld.com:80/shoes/home.html">guide</A>
should help you make a good decision. (By the way, I over-pronate, and need a
shoe to fix this, so I use a Brooks Beast). It is a good idea to
buy a running shoe from a
<!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><A HREF=http://www.runnersworld.com:80/resource/runstore.html>retail running store</A>.

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I picked a marathon to run. The 1997 Las Vegas Marathon on Feb. 9. There is group
from the UW running club planning a trip to the marathon. I now have to increase my
mileage to 50 miles/week.


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All ye people out there who are thinking of starting to run, take a look at
some information for 
<!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><A HREF="http://www.runnersworld.com:80/beginrun/home.html">beginning runners.</A>

<!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><A HREF="http://www.reebok.com/walkreebok1.html">Walking</A>
is also a good fitness activity to start with if you haven't been
running for some time. As a motivating factor: Do you know that 
<!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><A HREF="http://www.runnersworld.com:80/beginrun/oprahrun.html">Oprah Winfrey ran</A> a
marathon?
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<P><H4> I run because I am a runner, and that's what we do.</H4>
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